Michael Grant wrote in a message to Bob Jones:

 MT>> I would consider it a "design decision" and not dink with it.  
 MT>> That warning's been in the docs since 2.0x. The Linux port might 
 MT>> not operate correctly with existing CTLs which have both 
 MT>> according to "Scott's rules" if you ignore the case
sensitivity 
 MT>> where it already exists.

 BJ> With Wes's decision to put a number of configuration files in
 BJ> /var/max/etc instead of /var/max (by default), there are already
 BJ> a number of items that don't work exactly like the DOS, OS/2 and 
 BJ> Win32 version.

 MG> This is the sort of thing I mean when I say that some of us worry
 MG> about this becoming a Linux-only project. When a developer
 MG> unnecessarily changes the code to Unix-specific settings like this,
 MG> it causes problems for those who want to port it back to other
 MG> OS's.

I'm beginning to wonder if this /var/whatever stuff is nailed down.  That's
certainly not where *I* tend to put executable or data files...

And FWIW,  "etc" is not strictly a linux (or unix) thingy.  My
OS/2 boxes have them in there too,  someplace.

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